Su Lun led Shinfuku Mitsuko up the cliff, and then stopped on the stone platform where a withered tree stood.
Having brought her up, he steadied himself before saying again, "Excuse me, Princess."
"Ah...?"
The Princess had not yet fully reacted when she felt the ground beneath her feet again, hearing these words, a fleeting unusual color passed across her fair face. Like a deer encountering a Hunter in the woods, she belatedly bowed and said, "Thank you, Mr. Su Lun."
The stone platform nestled in the crevice wasn't very large, just about fifty square meters or so. But conveniently, a spring bubbled up through the crevices, forming an irregularly shaped hot spring pool. The water was crystal clear, and through the misty vapor on the surface, one could clearly see the pebbles at the bottom of the pool.